"I think what's happened is that the general public has become much more aware of the destructive power of Wall Street."

-- Cathy O'Neil

#Wall Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Streets Quotes

“I just wanted to be an actress. It never occurred to me that I could become famous, because I'm not one of those people who's automatically going to be the lead. I always saw myself as the mate.”
“A wealth of knowledge is openly accessible in nature. Our ancestors knew this and embraced the natural cures found in the bosoms of the earth. Their classroom was nature. They studied the lessons to be learned from animals, knowing that much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. Animals are constantly teaching us things about ourselves and the way of the universe, but most people are too blind to watch and listen.”
“Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.”
“To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.”

Source : "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations". Book by James B. Simpson, 1988.
“Understanding comes with life. As a man grows he sees life and death, he is happy and sad, he works, plays, meets people - sometimes it takes a lifetime to acquire understanding, because in the end understanding simply means having sympathy for people.”

Source : FaceBook post by Rudolfo Anaya from Sep 11, 2015
“Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.”
“I'm no lady; I'm a member of Congress, and I'll proceed on that basis.”
“I wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else for that matter.”

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